Apigee X is the latest product version of Google’s Apigee API Management platform. Adding a 4 product version next to Apigee Edge (SAAS), Apigee for Private Cloud and Apigee Hybrid. Apigee X is best described as a version of Apigee Hybrid that is (almost) fully managed by Google.
There is a free evaluation version available. One only needs a (free) Google Cloud account. The suggested way to get started with Apigee X is the Apigee Evaluation Setup. But if you want to experiment with API proxies that are publicly available, better use the apigee-ngsaas-trial-install.shscript.
Create a Google Cloud project and assign the Apigee Organization Admin role to yourself.
Then simply start the script. One attention point when using the Cloud Shell terminal: the script takes a long time to execute, causing your shell to close. I solved this by restarting the script after the organization was provisioned. Then opening the Apigee console.
Configured an API proxy “httpbin” pointing to http://httpbin.org/ for my project (apigee-x-2021 with LB IP 34.117.205.203).. And invoke the API proxy:
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curl -k -v https://apigee-x-2021-eval.apigee.net/httpbin/uuid --resolve "apigee-x-2021-eval.apigee.net:443:34.117.205.203" |
There are limited costs related to the use of this Apigee X eval. A number of objects are created by the script on GCP to expose the API proxies publicly. Estimated cost for these components is €0,07/hour. The Apigee X trial itself is of course free.
- 2 VM instance (apigee-envoy-xxxxx)
- Instance group (apigee-envoy-europe-west1)
- Instance template (apigee-envoy-europe-west1)
- Forwarding rule (apigee-envoy-https-lb-rule)
- Load balancer (apigee-envoy-proxy-map)
- With backend (apigee-envoy-backend)
- Target proxy (apigee-envoy-https-proxy)
- SSL cert (apigee-ssl-cert)
- Static IP address (lb-ipv4-vip-1)
Author: Guy Crets 
